Storia do Mogor 238.7.2

238.7.2

There now remains something to be said on the Mogul mode of government. I have already stated that the king holds public audience in the 'Am-Khas (Hall of Audience), and there it is usual for aggrieved persons to appear and make complaint. Some men demand punishment for murderers, others complain of injustice and violence or other such-like wrongful acts. To show his equity, power, and greatness, the king ordains with arrogance, and in few words, that the thieves be beheaded, that the governors and faujdars compensate the plundered travellers, and return to court themselves to render an account of their bad government. In some cases he announces that there is no pardon for the transgressor; in others he orders the facts to be investigated and a report made to him. To similar complaints he gives similar answers. This is merely to console, and as a proof that he is no consenting party to injustice.